The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen 4Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... effects almost without the inter- vention of the will , care ought to be taken , that , when the choice is unrestrained , the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly , should not be ...
... effects almost without the inter- vention of the will , care ought to be taken , that , when the choice is unrestrained , the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly , should not be ...
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... effects are always in the same proportion . For pride , which produces quickness of resentment , will obstruct gratitude , by unwillingness to admit that inferiority which obligation implies ; and it is very unlikely that he who cannot ...
... effects are always in the same proportion . For pride , which produces quickness of resentment , will obstruct gratitude , by unwillingness to admit that inferiority which obligation implies ; and it is very unlikely that he who cannot ...
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... effects , but he was always certain that the next would be more propitious ; nor was ever convinced , that the present spring would fail him before the mid- dle of summer ; for he always talked of the spring as coming till it was past ...
... effects , but he was always certain that the next would be more propitious ; nor was ever convinced , that the present spring would fail him before the mid- dle of summer ; for he always talked of the spring as coming till it was past ...
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... effect . To prevent this dreadful event , the balance is put into our own hands , and we have power to transfer the weight to either side . The motives to a life of holiness are infinite , not less than the favour or anger of ...
... effect . To prevent this dreadful event , the balance is put into our own hands , and we have power to transfer the weight to either side . The motives to a life of holiness are infinite , not less than the favour or anger of ...
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... effects , how small a proportion his real action would bear to his seeming possibilities of action , how many chasms he would find of wide and continued vacuity , and how many interstitial spaces unfilled , even in the most tumultuous ...
... effects , how small a proportion his real action would bear to his seeming possibilities of action , how many chasms he would find of wide and continued vacuity , and how many interstitial spaces unfilled , even in the most tumultuous ...
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Página 385 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Página 416 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch. We thus enter the bowers of ease, and repose in the shades of security.
Página 382 - ... no species of -writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.
Página 415 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered . through the wild without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Página 24 - ... to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infusing any wish for that superiority...
Página 22 - They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas, and therefore easily susceptible of impressions; not fixed by principles, and therefore easily following the current of fancy; not informed by experience, and consequently open to every false suggestion and partial account.
Página 26 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Página 20 - E works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Página 22 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellences in common with himself.
Página 412 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise; he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills; and sometimes caught...